Let be a collection of finite arithmetic progressions, where each is an initial segment of the set of consecutive multiples of a positive integer . Let denote the minimum length of an interval containing pairwise disjoint \emph{shifted} copies of all members of the family . We study this parameter in the following two cases: for a fixed positive integer , (1) each progression in has the form , and (2) all progressions of have the same size , that is, . We in particular derive the following asymptotic estimates. In case (1), when , we get . In case (2), when , we get , while if , then . In both cases we additionally determine asymptotically or settle its order of magnitude for all .

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