The phrase "before the inception" is correct and can be used in written English.
It typically indicates a time period or action that occurred before the beginning or start of something. Example: "The company had been struggling with financial issues before the inception of the new management team."
"Doctor Strange is a project we've been working on since before the inception of the MCU," he said.
Dan Alilpaz asks: Before the inception of the universe, there apparently existed only a singularity, outside of which existed 'nothing'nothing
Years before the inception of the World Wide Web, he was outraged that nearly all Congressional offices did not have e-mail addresses.
Before the inception of the TS Eliot prize, the judges' quarterly choice, in practical terms, merely boosted visibility and enhanced sales.
Though Ms. Joo started her search before the inception of Occupy Wall Street and even before the first Arab Spring uprisings, the motivating spirit of both movements seems to suffuse the show.
A New Jersey basketball player holds the major college single-season scoring record, and the career points per game scoring record, and both were earned before the inception of the three-point shot.
Tim Frank, a spokesman for the N.B.A., said the anthem has been performed before games since the inception of the league in 1946 and that it is done "in honor of the United States and those who have sacrificed to protect it".
Table 1 shows descriptive statistics of the treatment and control groups, both before and after the inception of the AUH.
All patients gave their informed consent before inclusion in the inception cohort, and the responsible local medical ethics committee had approved the study protocol.
We were told by the Faculty Council that they would simply stop our activities if, before Christmas, 3 months after the inception of our organisation and 5 months before the fair was due, we had not found at least 12 participant companies.
In 1951, even before the recognized inception of what would become known as the Civil Rights Movement, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote in an essay entitled, "To Be a Jew, What is It?" -- "It is our destiny to live for what is more than ourselves".
