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From The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (p. 432, footnote 48)
A variant of more than that is sometimes found is greater than, as in It reserves the right to treat any Application in the Public Offer for greater than 20,000 Sale Shares as an Application in the Institutional Offer. Since greater is an adjective, however, we need to treat 20,000 as head of the DP: this is another case where a comparative expression (greater than) has been reanalysed to function as an adverbial modifier (cf. Ch. 13, §4.5).