Sort of thinking around the corner, seeing that 'preg_match' worked and 'if (preg_match(' would throw an error, if the number of results were still "too" long, then could try 'f (preg_match' at least that way don't have the test statement of if, and don't have the opening parethesis for the preg_match function, but do have the end of the if statement (or possibly other functions such as sprintf) and do therefore "narrow" down the results.

That way don't have to request a modification to the security system and still able to mostly search on the desired phrase. Will say that for some reason, one result came back from the above when there was no space between f and (, but several when there was a space.