The phrase "a distinguished class" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a group of individuals or entities that are recognized for their excellence or high status in a particular field or context.
Example: "The university is known for its alumni, who represent a distinguished class of leaders in various industries."
Alternatives: "an esteemed group" or "a notable category".
The fundamental quantities of the measure theoretic foundation of probability theory are the sample space S, which as before is just the set of all possible outcomes of an experiment, and a distinguished class M of subsets of S, called events.
Among nonlinear operators, there is a distinguished class called superposition operators.
Einstein was willing to generalize the equivalence principle, and to conclude that the classical idea of a distinguished class of frames of reference has no physical basis.
He had identified a distinguished class of dynamically equivalent "relative spaces," in any of which true forces and masses, accelerations and rotations, would have the same objectively measured values.
According to one approach what is fundamental to the nature of a veridical perception is the fact that it belongs to an epistemically distinguished class of perceptual experiences.
Arcimboldi grew up in a distinguished family.
Fullerene C60 as a representative of a new structurally distinguished class of carbon nanocompounds is of interest for biomedical application.
Anne Dallas Dudley was born Annie Willis Dallas in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1876 to a distinguished upper-class family.
This was considered a distinguished, diverse class that packed star power.
Besides Marino, the other five quarterbacks from the distinguished class of 1983 -- John Elway, Jim Kelly, Todd Blackledge, Tony Eason and O'Brien -- were all here.
Honi Coles, the distinguished "class act" tapper, once said that when Bill (Bojangles) Robinson was making movies in the nineteen-thirties with Shirley Temple — films in which, some people later claimed, this great star was pushed into Uncle Tomism — he was the happiest man in the world.
