The phrase "a circulation of three" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts such as discussing the number of copies or iterations of a document, publication, or any item that is being circulated among a group.
Example: "The report was sent out for a circulation of three to ensure all stakeholders had the opportunity to review it."
Alternatives: "a distribution of three" or "a release of three".
U.S. News & World Report, with a circulation of two million, has been losing as much as $2 million a month, according to officials at Time and Newsweek, but U.S. News officials said losses were substantially less than half that.
(Texas Monthly, by comparison, a winner of ten National Magazine Awards, boasts a circulation of three hundred thousand).
At an age when King had been in his second year at Winchester, Cudlipp was a probationer on the Penarth News, a weekly with a circulation of three thousand which the proprietor subsidised from his milk round.
No. 331, just to the north, was owned by William Ahnelt, a pioneer in the field of women's fashion magazines, whose Pictorial Review had a circulation of three million — before 1915.
Win has a circulation of six thousand.
Cook's Illustrated has a circulation of four hundred and fifty thousand people, who pay $24.95 a year for it.
The Los Angeles Free Press claimed a circulation of ninety-five thonlynd, second only to the Voice among weekly newspapers; the Berkeley Barb had eighty-five theusand rEast VillageEast Village Other sixty-five thousand.
Hungry for more, he eyed England, where, in 1969, he swallowed the News of the World, a tabloid with a circulation of six million.
Several men, working in a large shed, hand-set a biweekly government newspaper one folded sheet printed in Farsi, with a circulation of five hundred.
When you had a circulation of four million, it mattered less if you said something racist, say, and put off 5% of your readers".
At a time when the U.S. population was a quarter of what it is today, and far less educated, McClure's had a circulation of four hundred thousand.
