The number of renewals allowed in an operating lease arrangement.

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Operating Leases, Future Minimum Income Due, Future Minimum Sublease Rentals

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The number of facility sites consolidated into the new site under operating lease arrangement.

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Term of lessee's operating lease renewal, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 842
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (a)(3)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=77888426&loc=SL77918673-209980

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Term of lessee's operating lease, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Leases - Narrative (Details) $ in Millions		1 Months Ended				9 Months Ended
Leases - Narrative (Details) $ in Millions	Dec. 01, 2017	May 31, 2017 facility	Jun. 30, 2016	Mar. 31, 2016	Nov. 30, 2013 item	Sep. 30, 2018 USD ($)
Lexington
Leases
Lease term (in years)					10 years
Number of subsequent renewals \| item					2
Renewal term (in years)					5 years
Amsterdam
Leases
Lease term (in years)	10 years			16 years
Renewal term (in years)			5 years
Number of facility sites consolidated into new site \| facility		3
Minimum rentals to be received \| $						$ 9.9