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What does くらい mean in this context?

びっくりするくらい遅いですよね。

Primarily, くらい means "approximately", or "about". But if I translate this
sentence (via Google Translate), it gives me "It's surprisingly late, isn't
it?". No word "approximately" or "about" in the translation. How to translate
that sentence properly?
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meaning japanese-to-english particle-くらい
What does くらい mean in this context?
I think it's just a hedging word, a lot like the ね at the end of the sentence.
So it's used to make the sentence sound softer. I'd translate it as "Kinda
surprising how late it is, huh?"
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くらい (= [位]{くらい}) has the meanings "degree" "extent" "amount".

(It can be rephrased as びっくりするほど (= [程]{ほど}).)

「XXくらいYY」/「XXほどYY」 means "YY to the extent/degree that XX"

So びっくりするくらい遅い means _lit._ "late/slow to the extent that I get surprised" →
"It's so slow/late that I'm surprised", "It's surprisingly late/slow."
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