OK, I'm going to answer my own question -- it was probably so obvious that
nobody else wanted answer such an easy one!

I simply needed to apply

    <filter class="solr.PatternReplaceFilterFactory" 
        pattern="([^a-z])" replacement="" replace="all" />

after

    <filter class="solr.PatternReplaceFilterFactory" 
        pattern="^the\s" replacement="" replace="first" />
    <filter class="solr.PatternReplaceFilterFactory" 
        pattern="^a\s" replacement="" replace="first" />

instead of before, as I had it originally.  Otherwise "the\s" and "a\s" is
never matched!

Hope this maybe helps somebody else...

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