The phrase "a collection of profiles" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a group or assortment of individual profiles, such as in a report, presentation, or database.
Example: "The report includes a collection of profiles for each candidate applying for the position."
Alternatives: "a set of profiles" or "a group of profiles".
Mr. Blackwell described himself as a "dilettante" in a 1983 interview for "Mathematical People," a collection of profiles and interviews.
Fisher likes to settle on a single source for each section, which would be fine if he'd written a collection of profiles rather than a book billed as a comprehensive historical survey.
The book is a collection of profiles and essays that mix faux anthropology (the Aztecs and the Aborigines get mentioned) with descriptions of local culture ("black helicopters," "the 'Kerry Kalamity,' " Wonkette), all thrown together in Associated Press-style paragraphs.
Web sites like TONY.com (Time Out New York), Nerve.com and Boston.com offer online dating services by pooling a collection of profiles submitted by their younger, more urban subscribers, through a template provided by their New York-based company, Spring Street Networks.
Livingston wrote the book Founders at Work, a collection of profiles of marquee technology entrepreneurs.
This, paired with an attempt to liberate herself from having to "walk straight into a mortgage" come graduation, culminated in her project called "Dwelling," a collection of profiles documenting families and their non-traditional homes.
The next phases of the rollout, expected in February and in the fall, will involve creating a members-only section, turning the artists' directory into a collection of profile pages like those on MySpace.
They asked the question because they couldn't control their feelings". One of the students' favorite books was "Heroes Without Capes"—a Burmese collection of profiles of ordinary people who, in small ways, defied the authorities in order to improve the world immediately around them.
One of his best-selling books, "Six Men," was a collection of lengthy profiles of Chaplin, Bogart, Adlai E. Stevenson, Mencken, Edward VIII and Bertrand Russell.
"No Innocence Abroad" (1953), a collection of his profiles, revealed him as "an adventurer, a bon-vivant, a crime reporter, a cynic," in the words of a New York Times reviewer.
Mr. Lamb's engaging book is, in equal parts, a travelogue, a political, cultural and economic analysis and a collection of poignant profiles of average Vietnamese citizens who, despite the devastation visited upon their country by the United States, simply love Americans.
