Never too late to answer your own silly question. It looks like this
is sphinx behavior and a relatively quick fix is to remove hyphens.

http://www.sphinxsearch.com/forum/view.html?id=2327

On Apr 6, 12:59 pm, Alan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm guessing this is a sphinx specific issue, but perhaps some can
> point me in the right direction. Searching for "hyphen" amongst other
> things didn't lead to results.
>
> basically the issue is this. We have text such as "mr-7", but when I
> do a search for "mr-7" documents that should match don't. The issue
> seems to be specific to text that has hyphens in it. Any idea what the
> issue is, and how I might get these documents to match?
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