An exhibition of this scale must have been conceived back when David Cameron was still prime minister and the UK seemed a cosily conservative place.
The relevant COSPAR standard was conceived back in the nineteen-fifties, and it relies on an estimate of how likely Earth organisms are to survive on Mars.
That is the AAR as it was conceived back in 1981 to help Army leaders adapt quickly in the dynamic, unpredictable situations they were sure to face.
In a letter uncovered this week, we learn of the Clockwork Orange conceived back before Stanley Kubrick came on board and made his film with Malcolm McDowell.
Originally conceived back in 2009, it was introduced with the aim of ridding Uganda of homosexuality and, to begin with, contained the death penalty.
Woolwich Central is not universally disliked: boring the building is not, and when the plans were conceived back in the early 2000s they ticked a lot of boxes.
He noted that the season finale was conceived back when the production team didn't know what future the show had.
Far preferable would be a clear declaration that the shuttle has had its day - after all, it was conceived back in the 1960s, and nobody then expected that Nasa would depend on it for more than 30 years.
The jointly hosted World Cup, the first on Asian soil, was conceived back in 1996, in what appeared to many at the time to be an inspired blend of sports and diplomacy that would draw the uneasy neighbors together.
The threader was conceived back in Tucson, where Michael had found himself in a swimming pool, imagining his body as a molecule, "floating on the surface of the water, wondering how to get pulled out".
