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I've found a sentence like this:

> 私がちょっとぐらい 自己中で 常識がなくても 許してくれる

Which I've parsed as:

> Even if I'm selfish and lack common sense, he'll forgive me, to the extent
> that it's just a bit.

or more naturally,

> He'll tolerate even my selfishness and thoughtlessness, at least for a
> little while.

But I'm pretty uncertain about the ちょっとぐらい in particular. Both words can
perform several functions, and I assumed their combination would be a common
idiom, but none of the dictionaries I've checked have examples. What does the
combination ちょっとぐらい mean? Can it mean different things in different contexts?
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grammar meaning particle-くらい
ちょっとぐらい　/　ちょっとくらい　meaning
くらい/ぐらい by itself sometimes implies the word before it is a small
number/amount.

>   * 10円くらいで騒ぐな。 Don't make a fuss about (just) 10 yen.
>   * 30分くらいなら待てる。 I can wait for 30 minutes (implying 30 minutes is not too
> long).
>

In this sentence, ぐらい after ちょっと is optional, but adds "just" or "only" nuance
to ちょっと ("a bit").

In general, ちょっと can be translated both as "for a while" (time) and "a bit"
(degree). In this sentence, however, ちょっと modifies 自己中で常識がない, and you cannot
be 常識がない only for an hour, for example. So I think "only a bit" is the better
interpretation in this case.
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